16 Best classics books like Herkules by Georg Stiernhielm

Cover of Herkules by Georg Stiernhielm

Herkules

By: Georg Stiernhielm

2.40

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

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If you liked the classics plot in Herkules by Georg Stiernhielm , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Doctor Glas by Margaret Atwood, Hjalmar Söderberg, Paul Britten Austin

1. Doctor Glas

By: Margaret Atwood , Hjalmar Söderberg , Paul Britten Austin

3.70

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A masterpiece of enduring power,  Doctor Glas  confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping in… read more

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  • swedish literature
  • classics
"We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream."

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

"Besynnerligt, att det alltid går en rysning genom luften före soluppgången."

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

"Nothing diminishes and degrades a human being more than the knowledge of being unloved."

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

"La moralidad es un servicio doméstico, no una divinidad. Conviene usarla, pero no debe mandar"

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

Cover of To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

2. To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more

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  • classics
"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

Cover of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Mauldon, Malcolm Bowie, Mark Overstall

3. Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more

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  • classics
"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Cover of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Catherine Belsey

4. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more

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  • poetry
"My soul is in the sky."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Farewell, sweet playfellow."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Methought I was enamour'd of an ass."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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5. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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  • classics
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

Cover of Oedipus Rex  (The Theban Plays, #1) by Sophocles, J.E. Thomas, Elizabeth Osborne

6. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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  • classics
Cover of The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Burton Pike

7. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

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  • classics
Cover of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

8. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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  • classics
Cover of Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

9. Père Goriot

By: Honoré de Balzac

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his… read more

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  • classics
"Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"آری ,در این دنیا هیچ چیزی کامل نیست, مگر بدبختی."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"Notre coeur est un trésor, videz-le d'un coup, vous êtes ruinés."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

"If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible."

-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

Cover of Der Sandmann by E.T.A. Hoffmann

10. Der Sandmann

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Unter Hoffmanns Werken hat Der Sandmann das weitaus grosste Interesse gefunden. Sein Grundproblem i… read more

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  • classics
Cover of Nathan der Weise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Peter von Düffel

11. Nathan der Weise

By: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Peter von Düffel

4.01

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Nathan der Weise (1779 erschienen und 1783 uraufgefuhrt) ist eines der ze… read more

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  • classics
Cover of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Richard Andrews, Rex Gibson

12. Hamlet

By: William Shakespeare , Richard Andrews , Rex Gibson

4.02

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role o… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"Therein lies the rub."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Cover of The Trial by Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Edwin Muir, Willa Muir

13. The Trial

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir

3.95

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more

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  • classics
"But I’m not guilty,"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"Asking questions were the most important thing."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"

-Franz Kafka, The Trial

Cover of As You Like It by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

14. As You Like It

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more

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  • classics

15. Njal's Saga

By: Anonymous , Robert Cook

5.00

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-fr… read more

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16. A Dream Play

By: August Strindberg , Caryl Churchill

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In Strindberg's A Dream Play, written in 1901, characters merge into each other, locations change i… read more

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17. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

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  • classics
"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

18. Det går an

By: Carl Jonas Love Almqvist

3.84

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

During a steamboat trip between Stockholm and Lidkoping sergeant Albert falls in love with the glaz… read more

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19. Medea

By: Euripides , Rex Warner

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more

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20. Sensitiva Amorosa

By: Ola Hansson

3.07

Format: 43 pages, Paperback

Novela motivo de escándalo en Suecia durante años, el malsano néctar de la planta Sensitiva amorosa… read more

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  • swedish literature
  • classics
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21. Herkules

By: Georg Stiernhielm

2.40

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • swedish literature

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